Oracle Inventory

About the Product Registration Data Oracle Collects

During the product registration process, Oracle collects digital product identifiers from those Oracle products that contain them. The collected data provides important feedback to Oracle in order to improve the user experience and to optimize the programs and services we offer customers. This page provides specific information on what data is transmitted and how.

WHO Sends Information to Oracle?

Registration data is sent to Oracle by a user running the Product Registration Manager. The Registration Manager must run on a system that is connected to the Internet.

HOW Is Information Sent to Oracle?

Small encrypted XML messages are transported via a secure SSL connection over the Internet.

WHEN Is Information Sent to Oracle?

Registration is optional. Registration data is sent only if the user explicitly submits the data using the Registration Manager. The Registration process has three steps:

In the first step, the Registration Manager collects product registration data from the local system or network that is specified by the user.

In the second step, the Registration Manager sends a request to Oracle to determine which products have been registered.

In the final step, the user decides which products to register and submits the registration.

WHAT Information is Sent to Oracle?

As part of the registration process, the user's My Oracle Support SSO ID is sent to Oracle. When the registration is submitted, the following product registration information is sent to Oracle:

Data Name

Value

Instance Identifier

Unique identifier for that instance of the product

Product Name

Name of the product

Product Identifer

Unique identifier for the product being registered

Product Vendor

Vendor of the product

Product Version

Version of the product

Parent Name

The parent product of the registered product

Parent Identifer

Unique identifier for the parent of the product

Customer Tag

Optional customer-defined value

Timestamp

The time the productwas registered

Source

Where the Product Registration Identifiers came from

Container

The name of the product's container

The following information is sent to Oracle about the registration agentry on the client system:

Data Name

Value

Agentry Identifier

Unique value for that instance of the agentry

Agentry Version

Value of the agentry

Registry Identifier

Version of the file containing the product registration information

The following information is sent to Oracle about the system on which the registered products reside: